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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. what did the drunk Indian woman in the restaurant in the Homestead town look like?
(a) Fat in a long long Indian skirt.
(b) Like a movie star Indian with long black hair.
(c) Medium build in jeans and a white shirt.
(d) Skinny in very tight jeans.

2. What was in front of Sitting Bull's Monument?
(a) A square stone pillar topped by a bust.
(b) A plaque with Sitting Bull's history on it.
(c) A bench.
(d) A garden.

3. What color did Nerburn say the morning sky was?
(a) Light blue.
(b) Red.
(c) Rosy.
(d) Lavender.

4. How many times did Dan take a pinch of tobacco and offer it to the wind?
(a) Three times.
(b) Seven times.
(c) Four times.
(d) Six times.

5. The Catholic church held a conference to determine what about Indians?
(a) Whether they were people or animals.
(b) If they should be allowed to receive Communion.
(c) If they could go to heaven.
(d) If intermarriage with white Catholics should be allowed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Crazy Horse?

2. What gift had the Creator given Dan?

3. A flash of lightning illuminated a billboard with a quote from what book in the Bible?

4. Who was Ziolkowski?

5. What did Grover sprinkle in the fire that the bad spirits hated?

Short Essay Questions

1. Name some of the signs along the road in Chapter 22.

2. Describe Annie's yard and other things outside her house.

3. Why was Thoreau mentioned in the conversation?

4. The monument at Wounded Knee was erected in memory of what?

5. What did Dan answer when Nerburn asked him if the Pow Wow was their destination?

6. How do whites treat history of Lincoln differently than the history of Jesus?

7. Describe the inside of Annie's house.

8. What stood in the middle of the plot that was through the pillars?

9. Dan said the white people had made them blanket Indians hanging around the trading post for handouts. What did he say they were now?

10. Dan asked Nerburn to help him and Nerburn wanted to do that but what else did Nerburn feel he needed to do?

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